On 2019/02/25 23:59, Xiyue Deng wrote: > Hi OpenBSD ports, > > Since Debian stopped supporting Loongson's MIPS instruction set, I > turned to OpenBSD to revive my old netbook, though the experience has > been good and bad at the same time due to lack of manpower. By the > time I started the release was 6.2 and the last available binary > packages was for 6.1. For 6.3 mips64el package was available, but > again missing for 6.4. (As this is a very underpowered, building > required packages take quite a long time, e.g. llvm takes about 3 days > to finish.) Also despite having received help from many knowledged > people ehre, as an old architechture it starts to struggle to catch up > with new packages, for example ruby-passenger has been failing to > build since 6.3. Aspell shared the same fate. Overall it would be > great if things become better, especially: > > * Make sure mips64el packages are provided with releases. > * More time fixes for broken packages. > > In addition, it seems that the file system performance of ffs is worth > than ext4 from Debian: for example git pulling ports will take around > 2 minutes to finish on OpenBSD (with softdep), while in ext4 is around > 30sec-1min. Not sure whether there are ways to improve this. As I > don't have the expertise to fix it myself, I have returned to Debian > and manually backported packages I needed and settled for now. > > Sorry it sounds like a rant. Just wish things improve for > OpenBSD/Loongson over time.
I don't think anything will change for mips64el unless people who are interested in the platform help out by fixing things.
